Ian Rankin

@ByClaireWilson Drinks will be on me!!

Ridiculously excited to be making my debut appearance at the Cromarty Crime and Thriller weekend in May Most looking forward to buying my new pal @Beathhigh a wee drink 🥃

@HoneyburnBooks 👍👍

@Beathhigh Preordered the Heights the other day signed of course to add to our collection

The Vennel tonight, heading home from yet another successful ‘research trip’…

@billpalangio 👍 I was in there last night!

@amironburgundy @meolscop1978 Yup - Siobhan v Fox at pitch n putt.

@Beathhigh @meolscop1978 Didn’t he and Siobhan take Brillo there once?

I'm sure Rebus has taken clubs from here @Beathhigh

Dinner with a mate at The Tollhouse in Canonmills. First visit; delicious.

@UlyssesMcEwan This was a chicken hatchery in Kinglassie…

@Beathhigh It was always students accommodation / halls of residence in the 80s and 1990s and the Lanarkshire area if memory serves. Scary times.

The meningitis outbreak in Kent is bringing back some memories. I was 19, misdiagnosed as migraine. Got to stage I couldn’t get out of bed. GP visited, asked me to sit up. My back hurt a lot. Lightbulb moment - ambulance, lumbar puncture, recovery.

It’s Déjà vu all over again. The Scotsman, October 29th 1987…

@rejoyce360 @coutts38 Aye. Reckon I caught it from Co-worker at the hatchery. The Vanden Plas Princess - well remembered!

@Beathhigh @coutts38 Of course - I hadn’t remembered the timeline. Your poor dad. Poor you too - scary time. I think George McA and I came to visit you at Cameron Brig courtesy of auntie Jenny in the Morris Minor Vanden Plas. Some connection with your holiday job with the chickens too?

@brucerisk @VoxBoxMusic @FoppEdinburgh @LoveMusicGlasgo @assai_edinburgh @StevoMusicMan @sandymb1956 A gentle giant of folk music.

Thinking of my old pal Rab. 'Clear Day' Rab Noakes youtu.be/mNIV1E1WwUQ?si… One of Fife's best...RIP. @VoxBoxMusic @FoppEdinburgh @LoveMusicGlasgo @assai_edinburgh @StevoMusicMan @sandymb1956 @Beathhigh

@coutts38 Yup - scary time for dad so soon after losing our mum!

@Beathhigh Remember that time bro. It was Cameron Bridge hospital you were admitted to.

@Beathhigh UPDATE I got an email from the publishers 4 minutes ago letting me know that there'd be SPECIAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITIONS WITH SPRAYED EDGES! Signed by @Beathhigh & sprayed edges. What a day! biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copies/…

@sandymb1956 @WHSmith @EDI_Airport @orionbooks Happy travels! Did you bump into @Wingman18?

In @WHSmith at #Edinburgh Airport this morning,decent selection of #SirIanRankin #Rebus 📚 books.Bordered by John Grisham at one end and Judge Rinder at the other. @EDI_Airport✈️ #books @Beathhigh @orionbooks

@sandymb1956 @UlyssesMcEwan @YouTube @Wingman18 The perfect distillation of the WA sound!

@UlyssesMcEwan @YouTube Blowin Free still gets loud applause all these yrs later Malcolm when the audience hear the beginning being played at their concerts. In pic from a few yrs ago,Gavin @Wingman18 Sir Ian @Beathhigh and I backstage pretending we're band members 😃 drinking malt whisky with them.

Blowin' Free - Wishbone Ash | The Midnight Special youtu.be/BjfzybcoCXQ?si… via @YouTube

@TimRideout1 Correction: no one does paranoia like Sutherland

KLUTE dir. by Alan J. Pakula Tonight’s movie. One of the best. No one does paranoia like Pakula 🖤

A trip to Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery at Trongate 103. It brings together the genius of sculptor-mechanic Eduard Bersudsky & invites the visitor into a magic, mystical world of his creations. A moving testament to human spirit & imagination & a one-off in Glasgow & Scotland.

Edinburgh this evening. Looking towards the Castle from Brown’s Place…

@GrantMcPheeFilm @intocreative 👍👍

@Beathhigh @intocreative Monorail have just got a few more copies in!

You are going to absolutely love this, Ian! Caledonia Screaming by Grant McPhee. Out on Into Books in May. DM me if you'd like me to send you a review copy. 👌